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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2017, 6:21 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2017, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2017, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 290 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted.
823
WWUS85 KPUB 140021
SPSPUB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
621 PM MDT SUN AUG 13 2017
COZ088-094-140045-
Eastern Las Animas County CO-
Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft CO-
621 PM MDT SUN AUG 13 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
UNTIL 645 PM MDT...
At 621 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Trinchera, or 24 miles northwest of Des Moines, moving east at 25
mph.
Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Branson and Trinchera.
LAT...LON 3712 10418 3728 10378 3702 10367 3700 10382
3700 10412
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 250DEG 22KT 3706 10406
$$
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 9:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 9:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 10:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 1:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 34 min | |
| Aug 14, 2:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 2:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 22 min |
| Aug 14, 2:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 34 min | |
| Aug 14, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 29 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.